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- From: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: ati ultra
- Message-ID: <19923.1480.26369@dosgate>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 23:14:55 EST
- Reply-To: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
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- RF>Others who use the ATI 8514a boards, using IBM 8514a drivers, claim
- RF>lightning speed!
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- BD>Really? At our site, we find them identical to the IBM boards when
- BD>running OS/2...
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- RF>The original message was from a user who went from VGA to ATI 8514a,
- RF>and found the ATI 8514a to be slower.
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- Ah, I misunderstood.
-
- RF>I was not making a comparison with IBM boards or any suchlike....and,
- RF>the claims of lightning speed are, of course, also in comparison to
- RF>VGA and SVGA.
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- Again, the way it was worded, it sounded like you meant that using an
- ATI board with an IBM 8514A driver delivered better performance than an
- IBM 8514A board with the same driver. I guess we don't disagree after
- all.
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